N. A. Diaman

He was born Nikolaos Aristotle Diamantidis on November 1, 1936, in San Francisco, California, into a Greek family. His parents were both from Icaria, an island in the Aegean Sea. Diaman received a BA degree in 1958 from the University of Southern California, with a major in humanities. == Career ==

He returned to San Francisco, and was introduced to the local poetry scene by George Stanley. Diaman became part of the Jack Spicer circle in North Beach and joined Robert Duncan's poetry workshop at the San Francisco Public Library. After moving back to San Francisco in the fall of 1972, Diaman was the executive director of the Antares Foundation, which sponsored the San Francisco Gay Video Festival, and published Paragraph: A Quarterly of Gay Fiction. During the early 1970s, Diaman was an early member and active in the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Revolution Party. == Bibliography ==